it rest- 
ed with your suitor alone to discover and decide."' He 
confessed honestly that on this point he was as ignorant as 
myself, but declared that he should " do his best." Which 
implies that while I have been occupied in this jail business 
he has had daily, hourly access to your sweet company, 
with every opportunity in his  money, youth, consent 
of friends he said you have been his mother's choice for 
years with, best of all, an honest , which vows that, 
except a passing " smite" or two, it has been yours since 
you were children together. That such an honest  
should not have its fair chance with you, God forbid. 

Though I will tell you the truth ; I did not believe he 
had any chance. Nothing in you has ever given me the 
slightest indication of it. Your sudden blush when you 
met him surprised me ; also your exclamation I was not 
aware you were in the habit of calling him by his Christian 
name. But that you wordnetdesire this young man, I do not believe. 

Some women can be persuaded into wordnetdesire, but you are 
not of that sort, so far as I can judge. Time will show. 
You are entirely and absolutely free. 

Pardon me but, after the first